AI PID Parameter Updating for Adaptive Feedback Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional PID parameter settings for control systems rely heavily on human experience and intuition, which can be suboptimal and vary significantly with environmental changes or personnel, making it difficult to achieve consistent and adaptive control performance.

Innovation Solution

An artificial intelligence device using reinforcement learning to update control function parameters, specifically for feedback control systems like PID, PI, and PD, by acquiring output values and adjusting parameters to follow a baseline set through a recurrent neural network, ensuring optimal control values are generated regardless of environmental changes or personnel variations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If PID parameters are set based on human experience and intuition, then the control system can be configured without complex algorithms, but the control performance varies significantly with environmental changes and personnel differences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to environmental changesVSAvoidconsistency of control performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The control system performs self-learning through reinforcement learning algorithms, automatically optimizing PID parameters based on observed control outcomes and environmental feedback. The system serves itself by continuously improving its own control performance without external intervention, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and consistency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes PID parameters (Kp, Ki, Kd) based on learned patterns from environmental data and control outcomes. By automatically adjusting these parameters through machine learning rather than fixed human-set values, the system achieves both adaptability to environmental changes and consistent optimal performance across different conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Manufacturing precision

If PID parameters are manually adjusted to optimize for specific environmental conditions, then control performance is improved for that environment, but the parameters cannot be effectively applied to different environments

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol precisionVSAvoidapplicability across different environments
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The reinforcement learning model learns universal control patterns that can be applied across different environments and control scenarios. By training on diverse environmental data, the system develops a generalized understanding of optimal control strategies that maintains high precision across varying conditions, eliminating the need for environment-specific parameter tuning.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary learning by collecting and analyzing environmental data and control outcomes before actual control operations. This pre-learning phase enables the system to establish optimal PID parameters in advance for various environmental conditions, ensuring high control precision is achieved automatically when deployed in different environments without requiring manual re-tuning.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If reinforcement learning is used to automatically update control function parameters, then adaptability to environmental changes is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptive control capabilityVSAvoidcomplexity of control system
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces complex manual tuning mechanisms and iterative trial-and-error processes with an automated reinforcement learning system. By substituting human expertise and manual adjustment procedures with machine learning algorithms, the system achieves adaptive control capability while the complexity is managed through automation rather than human cognitive processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS11514358B2Automatic control artificial intelligence device and method for updating a control function
Publication Date: 2022.11.29 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

An artificial intelligence device is disclosed. In an embodiment, the artificial intelligence device includes a sensor configured to acquire an output value according to control of a control system, and an artificial intelligence unit comprising one or more processors configured to obtain one or more updated parameters of a control function of the control system based on the output value using reinforcement learning, and update the control function for providing a control value to the control system with the one or more updated parameters.